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Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun 1970
youtube ^ | 3/19/16 | The Carpenters

Posted on 03/19/2016 8:47:13 PM PDT by mdittmar

Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun 1970


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: carpenters; music; songs
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To: mdittmar

The Carpenters were not my cup of tea in high school, but it was impossible to ignore Karen’s lovely voice. The overdubbing of her voice, a trademark of Herb Alpert’s sound really made a difference.


21 posted on 03/19/2016 9:03:38 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: mdittmar

She had a beautiful, rich singing voice.


22 posted on 03/19/2016 9:04:15 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: lee martell
Richard rearranged Bacharach's music for Karen and made it better.

Thanks for starting thread. I missed a lot of my new favs back in the days. Here are some more I play frequently:

Phaedra with Nancy Sinatra and the guy on a horse
The Last Farewell, Roger Whittaker
The End of the World, Skeeter Davis (one with long blonde hair and blue sweater)
Kiss Me Goodbye, Petula Clark, the with a closeup, bangs, sleveless black blouse

23 posted on 03/19/2016 9:08:31 PM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: mdittmar

thanks. i just listened to four number one hits in the 70’s and i feel 100% better. i feel sorry for anyone who doesn’t love this music. as a musician, it’s just matchless. no one can touch them in what they did.


24 posted on 03/19/2016 9:10:50 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Mr. Mojo

Another of Burt’s many, many hits was “You’ll Never Get To Heaven If You Break My Heart”. Today, his manager might say
“Can you take the word “Heaven” out of it, Burt?”
He probably would have refused.

There was room for both rough and beautiful songs back then.
I’m thinking of David Gates and Bread; “I’d like to make it with you”. So gentle, and melodic. There is probably a good market for that today, but most music producers don’t want to risk losing a few hundred thousand in the investment. Plus, unless the group is ready to tour, it’s hard to make money from songs alone. The songs might be gobbled up and dispersed for free via sites like Spotify.


25 posted on 03/19/2016 9:12:04 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: mdittmar

A truly lovely voice unlike the screeches of today.


26 posted on 03/19/2016 9:20:57 PM PDT by Jvette
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To: Aliska

Do you find yourself to always be in a somber mood?


27 posted on 03/19/2016 9:21:28 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: dadfly

Rainy Days And Mondays;)


28 posted on 03/19/2016 9:22:11 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: Aliska

Phaedra was from the song ‘Some Velvet Morning’ by Lee Hazelwood. It was one of the most unusual songs released during that decade. To hear the by now familiar voice of Nancy Sinatra singing a duet about a mythologic character was surprising. Some would call it part of the psychedelic era.
It almost sounded like two separate songs loosely stitched together by way of a slowing tempo leading to a bridge.


29 posted on 03/19/2016 9:24:36 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Mr. Mojo; lee martell
Close to You was Bacharach & David, the greatest writers of popular music from about 1963 to 1970, an incredible string of hits. But this one is not by them.
30 posted on 03/19/2016 9:30:51 PM PDT by jobim
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To: jobim

I know.


31 posted on 03/19/2016 9:31:24 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: ConservativeMind

When I read depressing stuff, yes.


32 posted on 03/19/2016 9:32:31 PM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: Yaelle

That’s a funny story. How often we cannot predict outcomes.


33 posted on 03/19/2016 9:34:56 PM PDT by jobim
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To: lee martell
Yes, that's it, I didn't want to look up Lee's name. I wouldn't have known how to analyze that song. It's not my usual fare, I first heard it on Art Bell.

I also enjoy watching Britain's Got Talent. Today I woke up with the Elaine Paige and Susan Boyel duet with the stairway and candles running in my head, the melody. I always have to have a good melody.

Jackie Evancho, Paul Potts, Susan Boyle.

I have quite a few cd's but enjoy youtube more, sound isn't as good, but enjoy the visuals.

34 posted on 03/19/2016 9:41:14 PM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: blueunicorn6

“Muskrat fun! Muskrat fun for everyone! Paw dipping! Flat tail stuff!”

;^)


35 posted on 03/19/2016 9:42:41 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Huskrrrr
Carpenters, Herb and the TJB... excellent music.

Here is something old and new, and surprising.

2CELLOS - Thunderstruck [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

36 posted on 03/19/2016 9:50:23 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Jane Long

Word around the campfire was that John Wayne wanted her to be in True Grit in the role Kim Darby played. And that Elvis Presley was highly considered for the role Glen Campbell played. TG would have been a totally different movie had that happened.


37 posted on 03/19/2016 9:51:16 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
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To: Aliska

Jackie Evancho is supremely gifted. I really hope her family and or manager figures out how to give Jackie enough opportunity to be what she really is right now, which is a child. Hopefully there are a few months out of the year where she is off the road, and having nice, slow, boring weekends like others do. She seems to quite enjoy performing, though.


38 posted on 03/19/2016 9:57:38 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell; Jvette

There is a market today for the type of music you described, but you have to go to Korea to hear it.

KBS World TV is a Korean broadcasting network that features live performances of popular Korean singers on the show “Immortal Songs2”. This is not what’s known as K-Pop, it’s more along the lines of “standards” and similar in genre to what The Carpenters did.

Although the language is Korean, the music is very Western feeling and not unfamiliar like Chinese or Japanese music.

The 2 ladies performing in the link below are the duo “Davichi”. Although they’ve performed many times on the show, the first link is to “Do You Know” and is subtitled.

The second is “The Maze of Love”.

IMO,this is truly singing, not screeching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRATO0IILjE&index=14&list=LLhO5lNQzGvja-olo9AJaPUQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebdpwvEde8E&list=LLhO5lNQzGvja-olo9AJaPUQ&index=8


39 posted on 03/19/2016 10:02:47 PM PDT by Nacho Bidnith (America is a country founded by geniuses and run by idiots. Trump 2016)
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To: Huskrrrr
Chicago, Blood, Sweat and Tears... all good memories.

2 more interesting 'new and old' ones

2CELLOS - The Trooper Overture [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Scorpions / Vanessa Mae - Still Loving You 1996 Live

40 posted on 03/19/2016 10:03:39 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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